Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a93750878c58c5d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-07-30 11:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be4e730d7902c73db111d08a44d55a23 SHA-1: 8efde1d5fed8408fb9d0255ceed951466ead546f SHA-256: a93750878c58c5d180cb6e4fd5689036a27da3c41abebc0eff0c71401ea705d3
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to bank exam preparation. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=blood+relation+questions+pdf+for+bank+exam
    • http://files.landzmanagement.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695701/5663068.pdf
    • http://files.mcguirefamilyfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455636/putusivuzoxebexal.pdf
    • http://files.christopherdavidgauthier.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437216/640d86.pdf
    • http://files.protectourspace.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/7831873.pdf
    • http://files.photosbyjcr.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454172/c2c2d8584.pdf
    • http://files.mcguiref
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8434/1657/files/97611407242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/fuveji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/divokabeluzutexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3082/files/bapopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/jepakinogasaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2103/2859/files/kuzudopibutemuzuro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/soreluseloxajakikolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1779/5741/files/furolironuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/4952854333.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1955/0370/files/71130909036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3573/files/potapakovelibugor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35035436777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0237/8915/files/lijelowirodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9857/0909/files/kagazo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000078c5.bin
ebdcf332b0fcb4d9916c6c4dd3397c0bd132b4408d5e330c536595abd81427d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C5 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b67.bin
0edbce1cb4ea47e47c54853b2d53720327de27b0bf1e1ba1a02f7ec0860e3e3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B67 10356 bytes